👷 AutoDev Action

This action merges commits from different pull requests that have been tagged with the label dev into the dev branch on your GitHub repository.

name: Autodev
on:
  push:
    branches-ignore:
      - dev
  pull_request:
    types: [labeled, unlabeled, closed]

jobs:
  autodev:
    name: Build Dev Branch
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          # The token of the user that should perform the merges. 
          # This must be a personal access token with the necessary permissions
          token: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Autodev
        uses: Staffbase/autodev-action@v2.1.0
        with:
          # The token used to fetch the pull requests from the GitHub API
          token: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

All options

You can find all input options which are available for this action.

Input	Description	Default
token	PAT for GitHub API authentication
base	This is the base branch. The merge history originates from this branch.	main
branch	The branch the action will merge the pull requests to.	dev
label	The label where the action will be triggered.	dev
comments	The GitHub action creates a new comment inside every pull request.	false
success_comment	Comment string that will be shown in the pull request on success. Only necessary if comments is enabled.	''
failure_comment	Comment string that will be shown in the pull request on failure. Only necessary if comments is enabled.	''
labels	The GitHub action updates the labels inside every pull request for successful or failed merges to the dev branch.	false
success_label	Label string that will be shown on the Pull request on success. Only necessary if labels is enabled.	successful
failure_label	Label string that will be shown on the Pull request on failure. Only necessary if labels is enabled.	failed
user	Name of the user which does the git commit.	AutoDev Action
email	E-Mail of the user which does the git commit.	staffbot@staffbase.com

Example Usages

Always create the dev branch.

- name: Autodev
  uses: Staffbase/autodev-action@v2.1.0
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

Add a status comment if the merge was successful or failed.

- name: Autodev
  uses: Staffbase/autodev-action@v2.1.0
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
    comments: true
    success_comment: '🎉 The action successfully merged all branches with the dev label.'
    failure_comment: '⚠️ Something went wrong.'

Add a status label if the merge was successful or failed.

- name: Autodev
  uses: Staffbase/autodev-action@v2.1.0
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
    labels: true
    success_label: 'successful'
    failure_label: 'failed'

Limitations

• currently only the first 100 pull requests are analyzed

Release

You can create a new release by creating a new tag and bump the version in package.json.

Development

Very nice that you want to work on the action. To create a working implementation, you can use the following command to perform all the necessary actions.

npm run all

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